Crime Race to murder suspects' Modesto, Calif. home was critical in preserving evidence

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Suspect arrested in brutal killing of teen left for dead 'not mad at her,' report says

One of the two suspects arrested in the brutal killing of a 19-year-old left for dead on the side of a road outside San Francisco reportedly told a news station in a jailhouse interview that he is not mad at her and did not mean to kill her. Daniel Gross, 19, told KTVU in an exclusive jailhouse interview that he did not plan “to do this at all” and that he "snapped."“I feel like s---,” he reportedly said, sitting inside Santa Rita Jail in the town of Dublin, Calif. “I f---ing hate myself, you know? I wish I could go back in time and that this never happened.

This information is not direct evidence that Helen murdered Bob, but it gives police a second suspect to investigate. Laci Peterson, a 27-year old mother-to- be , went missing from her Modesto , California home on Christmas Eve 2002.

Physical evidence linked two teenagers to the crime. Scott Peterson pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that he murdered his pregnant wife, Laci, and unborn son, Conner, a crime police and prosecutors say took place in the couple's Modesto home in the days just before Christmas.

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Dying woman drags herself 100 yards to a road and uses last words to identify her suspected killers

A dying woman who reportedly dragged herself to the side of a rural street used her final words to help authorities identify her killers, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said. The 19-year-old woman, identified as Lizette Andrea Cuesta, of Tracy, was found bloody and suffering from life-threatening stab wounds and other injuries on the side of rural Tesla Road in Livermore about 2 a.m. Monday, authorities said.&nbsp;The 19-year-old woman, identified as Lizette Andrea Cuesta, of Tracy, was found bloody and suffering from life-threatening stab wounds and other injuries on the side of rural Tesla Road in Livermore about 2 a.m. Monday, authorities said.

Modesto mass murder suspect was linked to child's death three days before killings, police admit (VIDEO). Martinez is being held at Santa Clara County Jail. Police officers carry evidence bags at a crime scene where five bodies were found in a home Saturday in Modesto , Calif .

Prominent Modesto criminal defense attorney Frank Carson and eight others, including three California Highway Patrol officers, were arrested Friday for their suspected Officers are on scene at the home of defense attorney Frank Carson on 9th Street in Turlock, Calif . on Friday (08-14-15).

A "tremendous" amount of evidence was found at the south Modesto, California home shared by 19-year-old Daniel Gross and 25-year-old Melissa Leonardo, the suspects in the murder of a Tracy teenager early Monday, an Alameda County Sheriff's Office spokesman said.

And victim Lizette Cuesta's dying declaration to first responders, in which she named her killers, quickly led investigators to the home in the 1000 block of Nadine Avenue.

"From the time we discovered Lizette (whom passers-by found suffering multiple stab wounds along Tesla Road in a remote area of Alameda County) to the time we got to Modesto was critical in the preservation of the crime scene," Sgt. Ray Kelly, public information officer for the Sheriff's Office, told The Bee. "The evidence and Lizette's statements to us helped make this investigation unfold very rapidly."

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SWAT team searches home near Modesto High. Brandon Pettit and Felix Valverde, murder suspects in deaths of Scott and Janet Pettit, were at the Stanislaus County Courthouse in Modesto , Calif ., on Monday, Dec.

Home & Travel. Police have not yet released the names of the two murder suspects , but say they are both 19. They were arrested in Modesto on Monday, hours after the victim “ was able to provide us with pertinent information about her attackers,” reads the statement.

Gross and Leonardo are engaged, according to their Facebook profiles, and the Sheriff's Office has described Cuesta as a friend of both.

At a news conference in Alameda County on Tuesday, Kelly told reporters that investigators "have a lot to fill in as far as motive." The night of the murder, Cuesta got into the suspects' car consensually, Kelly said. After that, detectives have been "trying to put together what happened."

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A subsequent police search of Keough's central Modesto home on Serena Avenue found no indications of an attack, blood or signs that evidence had been cleaned, he testified. Copyright (c) 2011, The Modesto Bee, Calif .

The suspect , Kenneth Gleason, was being held on drug charges. Authorities did not yet have enough evidence to charge him with murder , Baton Rouge Sgt. No one answered the door at his house in a quiet neighborhood of mostly ranch-style homes with well-kept lawns, located about 10 miles from the

Asked where the stabbing of the victim is believed to have occurred, Kelly told The Bee, "We have a very dynamic crime scene on Tesla Road ... I'm going to leave it at that."

San Francisco news station KRON reported Monday that authorities said it appears Cuesta was dumped from a car and left for dead. It said she crawled about 100 yards until a passerby spotted her about 2 a.m. and called 911. She was airlifted to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, where she pronounced dead about 4:30 a.m.

"She survived for quite a bit of time against tremendous odds and was left there for dead," Kelly said.

On the evidence found at the Nadine Avenue home, the sergeant said at the news conference, "What it is and what it means to the case, we're not ready to say yet."

His department is careful with the information it releases, to ensure the integrity of the investigation, Kelly noted. What's said is sure to stimulate conversations, and "we want to make sure we're ahead of those conversations."

He urged anyone with information on the case to contact the Sheriff's Office through its website or at ... Tipsters may remain anonymous, he said.

The Modesto Police Department has had no contact with Leonardo, spokeswoman Heather Graves said, and no contact with Gross since he was a minor.

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